Training Log Archive: Becks

"Endurance" Freeletics session. It was actually plenty for me - I never want to do these but always feel better after them, even if they are something of a token gesture to my former fitness.

Any suggestions of woods to walk in north of Salem that are likely to be empty in the rain? We both need to stretch out legs a bit more than pac-manning round the graveyard with everyone else in the neighborhood. We were walking round the golf course on the paved tracks there but they're now keeping one employee there at all times to chase you off in his golf cart. He is mortified every time, poor guy, so we stopped doing it.

It's wild how my mood is oscillating. I have some good days where I get a bit of work done and have fun with Euan in between and I have some energy, and then utterly terrible days where I feel drained and hopeless. Zoom call frequency seems to correlate positively with those days.

Was unsure whether to write this in public but what the heck. Have been trying to push for the Innovation team to find an end user to partner with for roll out of diagnostics, and no one managing the groups seems to care - they just want to "do something." So this week I spoke with Partners in Health, the organisation who are taking on track and trace in MA. They are utterly frustrated because MA has all the resources it needs to do a good job of the testing part of this effort, but there is no leadership from anyone to ensure testing capacity is used to full strength. We need an integrated COVID network where people can go post exposure, get a rapid test, send another sample overnight to a central lab for confirmation, and shut down new outbreaks rapidly. Currently Quest is doing the most tests in MA but can take 5 days to return results - not good enough. The Broad meanwhile is not being fully utilised because apparently they require sample submission in a google doc, which no one clinical is comfortable with (quite rightly). A COVID network could match people with a test location, shuttle samples to labs with increased capacity that day, and return data to a central location to model the outbreak.

But it's not happening. And if MA can't get it right, will anyone? Why was I the person having this call with Partners in Health and not someone on the board at MGH, the largest non-government employer in the state who just so happens to run clinics the whole way across the eastern side of the state?

I am so thoroughly depressed. I just want my 7 month old to play with another baby before the end of his first year of life.

C • Woods 11

Yoga for Stress relief. Nice.

C • New starlink-6 group passes next week 7